2024 REVIEW Part 2

 July

By July the craft trolley was going great guns. The children camping and yurting, love the little toys.

The garden was in full flow ....... so lovely to see in the dull days of this wintertime.

The towering hollyhocks were particularly good. And many more new ones are planted for 2025.
 

Harvesting continued but all in all, our tomato crop was well down on previous years.

August

The flowerbeds were bursting with colour. The roses were very good.

Harvesting continued.

September

September gave us glorious blue skies.

We made a start on the over-flowing compost heaps. It was quite a job.

The sunflowers went on endlessly, enough for vases and vases at home. 

October

The peppers and aubergines also went on and on, a real bonus for us as one of our favourite meals  is ..... stuffed peppers.

And we were still picking lovely bunches of dahlias. There were enough for the autumn coffee mornings.

November

In November I made a start on the barn path which has been like a jungle all summer. It is already sprinkled with germinating seedlings.

Boogie Woogie was a total star. I cannot begin to count the number of flowers it has borne.

We began pruning the willow and I started the willow rings in preparation for the wreath making workshop.

There were many delightfully warm days in November.

Eventually we had to harvest the contents of the polytunnel.

 We cut back all the dahlias and covered them over with carpet and held it down with old fencing. This year all of the garden dahlias have been left in the ground after last years disaster when we tried to store them.

December

The wreath making day was brilliant .... lots of fun, lovely goodies, plenty of laughs. And beautiful wreaths made.

The very same evening over £500 was raised for Farm Africa at Carols in the Barn.

And finally a lovely late afternoon carriage drive, not without some drama.

The last day of 2024 has arrived. We spent the morning at the garden clearing the polytunnel and wondering what 2025 will bring.

More of the same I hope.

Best wishes from us, to all of you who read this blog and a very happy new year.